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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sian Harrison

Priti Patel asked for details of Rwanda policy ahead of possible legal challenge

PA Wire

Home Secretary Priti Patel has been asked to provide details of controversial plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda ahead of a potential legal challenge.

A “world-first” agreement with the east African nation, which will see it receive asylum seekers deemed by the UK to have arrived “illegally” and therefore inadmissible under new immigration rules, was signed earlier this month.

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